From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:11:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:10:59 -0500 Received: from dsl-212-144-218-082.arcor-ip.net ([212.144.218.82]:27628 "EHLO spot.local") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:09:42 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Oliver Feiler To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: What does "hdX: CHECK for good STATUS" mean? Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:15:59 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <200210282247.37737.kiza@gmx.net> <1035843617.3552.67.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1035843617.3552.67.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: E9DD 32F1 FA8A 0945 6A74 07DE 3A98 9F65 561D 4FD2 X-PGP-Key: http://www.lionking.org/~kiza/pgpkey.shtml X-Species: Snow Leopard X-Operating-System: Linux i686 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200210282315.59281.kiza@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 28 October 2002 23:20, you wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 21:47, Oliver Feiler wrote: > > Btw, why is the drive not set to UDMA(33) on boot (like the other 80 GB > > Samsung drive)? I haven't found the drive in the ida-dma.c UDMA > > blacklists. Could this be some braindead BIOS thing? I had to flash a > > beta BIOS (Asus P5A-B) to get the board to boot with the 80 GB disks at > > all. > > Because there are known problems with some combinations of WD drives and > Ali controllers. So this is just a "better be safe than sorry" thing? Obviously my data survived since I copied ~60 GB onto the drive running in UDMA33 mode. :) What kind of problems would that be? A long time ago I had a 1.2 GB WD drive where forcing any DMA mode would result in massive data shredding. Meaning: once it works in UDMA there is nothing to worry about? Thanks for the quick answer. Oliver - -- Oliver Feiler http://www.lionking.org/~kiza/ <-- homepage PGP-key ID 0x561D4FD2 --> /pgpkey.shtml http://www.lionking.org/~kiza/journal/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9vbcfOpifZVYdT9IRAqT+AJ94LWLZwPTSh8huEx6PA0XeBLguGwCfRzgF t23o4RL/gzqx8/g/UuVzjSc= =SML7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----